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| + | One distinctive trait of some British dialects (including the standard one) is that "ones" is used with the plural demonstrative determiners ''these'' and ''those''. This is not the case for American English, for example, which only requires the pronoun if an adjective is used (e.g. these blue ones, those broken ones) | ||
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*One person said there would be no break this morning. | *One person said there would be no break this morning. | ||
Revision as of 00:18, 11 February 2020
See also: [a], [an], [any], [only]
Cardinal number
Pronoun
In English, adjectives cannot be made into nouns simply by adding an article as they can be in Romance languages.
- They have two cats: the red one is 12 years old, the other one is only 6.
Ils ont deux chats: le rouge, qui a 12 ans, et l'autre qui n'a que 6.
Demonstrative Pronoun
| -ci | -là | |
| celle celui |
this one | that one |
| celles ceux |
these (ones) | those (ones) |
One distinctive trait of some British dialects (including the standard one) is that "ones" is used with the plural demonstrative determiners these and those. This is not the case for American English, for example, which only requires the pronoun if an adjective is used (e.g. these blue ones, those broken ones)
Determiner
- One person said there would be no break this morning.
